Crawford M. Thomas has been in healthcare and academe for over 30 years. He has designed, implemented, and led inpatient and community acquired brain injury neurorehabilitation services. A skilled Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and Neuroscientist, he is the clinical lead of one of the largest community acquired brain injury teams in the UK, working for Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Part I - Sleep

1 - Introduction to sleep

2 - Introduction to the neurochemistry and neuroanatomy of sleep

3 - What happens when things go wrong with sleep

Part II - Brain Injury

4 - Introduction to brain injury: the basics

5 - Common neuroanatomical structures that are affected in brain injury

6 - Functional disturbances caused by brain injury

Part III - The combination of clockwise and counterclockwise vicious cycles

7 - Establishing the link between brain injury and sleep disturbance and sleep disturbance and brain injury

8 - Integration of thoughts

9 - Chronic neuroinflammation and waste disposal: the long and the short of it

Part IV - Treatments or promoting virtuous cycles

10 - Some ideas for research and intervention

11 - First foundation

12 - Second Foundation

13 - Third Foundation

14 - Fourth Foundation

Part V - A recapitulation

15 - Final thoughts